Thank you.
I'm the assistant deputy minister of fiscal and economic policy in the Department of Finance.
I just want to confirm what my colleague just said about the mandate of the parliamentary budget office and the mandate of the Auditor General. I understand that the Auditor General, in her appearance here, made the statement that her mandate and the mandate of the parliamentary budget officer are quite different. That is why we propose that the best place to locate the parliamentary budget office would be in the Library of Parliament, which already provides that kind of analytical support to parliamentarians.
The group in the Library of Parliament would be specifically dedicated to providing the economic analysis and fiscal analysis that is required here, so we thought it should be located in the Library of Parliament.